Youtubers getting their accounts terminated because they're promoting Twitch streams.

[The G.O.D II]

Can’t even complain. It’s some dudes who don’t even post except to notify their subs they are live streaming on twitch.

 

[Cynic]

If someone can get a YouTube competitor up and running I think they'd put YT out to pasture.

Facebook is already on this wave...

 

[winb83]

If someone can get a YouTube competitor up and running I think they'd put YT out to pasture.

I don't. People like to rail on YouTube but any site that reached that size based off user generated content would run into the same problems YouTube did. YouTube has 15 billion visits per month and has almost 2 billion registered users. Policing that content is a massive undertaking and if a staff had to paid to do it it would likely make the site unprofitable. It's been debated if YouTube is profitable anyway as it stands now.

The only thing they can really be faulted for is YouTube constantly changes the rules on the fly with little to no advance notice.

 

[Jax]

If someone can get a YouTube competitor up and running I think they'd put YT out to pasture.

Can't compete with Google money breh. Bread too long with adsense.

 

[8WON6]

If someone can get a YouTube competitor up and running I think they'd put YT out to pasture.

igtv.

 

[AB Ziggy]

igtv.

That's only good for extremely personal vlogs. It has its own niche like Twitch does for game streaming

 

[AB Ziggy]

Can't compete with Google money breh. Bread too long with adsense.

Amazon can, Facebook can, Microsoft can

 

[NZA]

Wonder if theyll start doing the same to patreon

i assume they feel patreon indirectly helps youtube since it encourages creators to keep making stuff without expecting yt to pay them more.

 

[ColiBomaye]

I follow a few channels that will occasionally push Twitch streams. I've never understood the point of Twitch when you have YouTube live streaming, but it'll be interesting to see if anything happens to those accounts.

It's smart to put your eggs in different baskets. It's especially true now when you got Youtube screwing over their content creators with stupid decisions over and over.

 

[5010]

Article is sensationalized.

All it means is, stop posting videos with thumbnails saying you're live on Twitch.

They are not stopping you from making legit videos while plugging your twitch, Twitter, IG, etc.

 

[L&HH]

don't think they would, since they aren't directly competing...and this twitch shyt sounds more petty amazon v google shyt...they just upping the ante

Youtube is starting a donation service thing. Like when you go on Youtube live your fans can donate to you

 

[Supercoolmayo]

If someone can get a YouTube competitor up and running I think they'd put YT out to pasture.

Youtube uploads hundreds of hours of content every hour, any other site wiuld be takibg losses over the servers

 

[winb83]

Youtube uploads hundreds of hours of content every hour, any other site wiuld be takibg losses over the servers

People seem to think another large company throwing money around will create this utopia that circumvents all the problems YouTube faces and continues to face. It won't. Whoever gets in this business is going to face the same copyright issues YouTube faces. When they get too large they'll face the same issues managing partners and policing content that YouTube does and the unfortunate problem is there isn't a good solution to any of these issues. The only valid solution is to keep the number of partners manageable. At that point it becomes what YouTube is. A place where users can upload content under the illusion of making it big but in reality the only way your channel is blowing up is if somebody that's already in cosigns you or YouTube themselves does. The days of the small channel catching fire and hitting a million subs are done.